Happy New Year 2020!
Wow, how
did that happen? Is it really already New Year again?
The calendar
says so, it must be true then, but, man, did that year slip by fast?
Being that
time of the year, I would like to wish everybody a very happy New Year and
indeed a new decade. I am grateful to all of you who, occasionally, have read
my blogs and especially to those who have written comments to my posts. It is
always great encouragement with that sort of attention.
I suppose I
should be doing a list of sorts of the best movies of the decade we are
finishing now, but I am hopelessly out of the loop on current movies. The
decades I can comment meaningfully on are up until the sixties, so I will skip
that and let smarter people do that.
In 2019 I
did 63 movies, of which 52 movies were from the List, 9 movies were Off-List
and a single movie was so bad I just had to write a post on it. This took me
from 1966 to 1969 with just 4 movies left for that year. It is also a step up
from last year and I guess this is the amount I can expect in a typical year.
Eventually I will get there. I am very happy to have introduced the 3 off-List
movies per year though. As I move on there are more and more movies I would
wish to include and already for 1970 I feel I will be limiting myself. Then again,
I set the rules myself.
My book
blog is getting a lot less attention than my movie blog, probably due to me not
being much involved in book list communities, but 2019 was actually a good year
on reading. I did 6 books for the List which took me from Gulliver’s Travels
(1726) to Clarissa (1748). Not a great span of years, but now the years are more
densely populated with books. Clarissa was apparently one of the longest novels
in English literature, so I guess it is downhill from now on. The books I read
continue to be good and interesting and that is important when you work on a
list you know you will never finish.
So, Happy
New Year to all of you and may the next decade be a great one.
